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Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman has announced that soccer coach Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, 43, faces a possible maximum sentence of death or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
The charges allege that Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino, on March 28, 2025, murdered Omar Hernandez in Lancaster
The San Fernando Valley Hurricanes football coach is accused of the disappearance and death of 13-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez, who was found dead in a ditch on North Harbor Boulevard in Oxnard, California.
My son did not deserve to be treated like an animal. He was my son
"The charges allege that Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino, on March 28, 2025, murdered Omar Hernandez in Lancaster," Hochman said.
Oscar Omar Hernandez's family points to Edgardo Garcia-Aquino
The boy's family claims that Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, who was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), was the last person they saw their son alive with.
"My son did not deserve to be treated like an animal. He was my son," the boy's mother, Gladys Bautista, told KTLA.
On March 30, the family reported the teenager missing after he boarded a train bound for Lancaster to visit Garcia Aquino and was never heard from again.
Garcia-Aquino is also accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in February 2024.